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and if they went to law school they're going to go into corporate law. in a be bored to tears, but they have to for a least 510 years to get the money to then be able to do their passion. that's a big difference. when i wrote in the 1970's, the most famous business book, and it remains to the day is what color is your parachute. and that he says there was from a start out following a passion. you can afford to do that as a 25 year-old who is finished college? have to work, get some -- you know, it takes a decade to pay off those college loans for most people unless they came from all of the family. in the other thing that i think is a bigot vantage, the boomer generation which was the generation that inherited -- we actually started it. a little bit older. inherited the revolution and push it forward. 80 percent white. the generation of young people today thank goodness is far more diversified, and there are a lot of young african american asian-american, in the american, hispanics who voted for obama, very much responsible for the reelection of obama be
and if they went to law school they're going to go into corporate law. in a be bored to tears, but they have to for a least 510 years to get the money to then be able to do their passion. that's a big difference. when i wrote in the 1970's, the most famous business book, and it remains to the day is what color is your parachute. and that he says there was from a start out following a passion. you can afford to do that as a 25 year-old who is finished college? have to work, get some -- you know,...
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to buy a new very well with our relationship he served more terms as president he declared martial law. a revolution was possible and then on dialysis. one was said of the naval forces had retired. john reed was the head of citicorp in the philippines. we had dinner with the president i decided i would wait until dinner was over. [laughter] use step down at the top of the game rather than and lose. i will win the election but nobody would believe that. step down while you can. he went on and the election was held there was uprising and it went to hell and to take him out by a helicopter where he died. how many insurance companies provide those services to the country? [laughter] there are many others. but the point* is to say how different we were in the valuable assets to the country. thousands of people made that possible. the second part is what happened. new york disgraced attorney general, than decided there was a lot on the books called the martin act enacted 1921 designed to go after bootleggers, it is silent as to intent. if you accuse somebody of a fraudulent act, he took the
to buy a new very well with our relationship he served more terms as president he declared martial law. a revolution was possible and then on dialysis. one was said of the naval forces had retired. john reed was the head of citicorp in the philippines. we had dinner with the president i decided i would wait until dinner was over. [laughter] use step down at the top of the game rather than and lose. i will win the election but nobody would believe that. step down while you can. he went on and...
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the required faithful execution of the laws the legislature passed. we were all in for eight long years to get results we had. teachers generally move towards the benefits of the new system. the unit itself didn't and still to this day are opposed to the substantive reforms, not just florida, but around the country. it's part of the process at the site. sometimes you have to say. sometimes you find common ground, but she's got to sort of politically emasculated. i ran for reelection, got elected, which gave me a pass to consider doing what i was doing and apart from being a jury to serve, lattice to have enough time to shift again speak out and out others see stimulate that around the country. >> my name is alan parker. adding a mac [laughter] >> that's a question. i am optimistic that there is a growing consensus. people's views of the political system -- people are angry and frustrated that i think it's beginning to change the system and i think the republican party has seen the need for a more positive, proactive message. not just to be against thi
the required faithful execution of the laws the legislature passed. we were all in for eight long years to get results we had. teachers generally move towards the benefits of the new system. the unit itself didn't and still to this day are opposed to the substantive reforms, not just florida, but around the country. it's part of the process at the site. sometimes you have to say. sometimes you find common ground, but she's got to sort of politically emasculated. i ran for reelection, got...
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it's a law. i don't know about the -- zonal enough about the ins and outs of washington, when you ask a lot don't you have to do something? so it is happening, it's a law so that would be important and it would give benefit aside from environmental benefits, benefit to the taxpayers because you would be paying 30% less for energy for all the government holdings and it would set off the market in spill into the private market. people would think about it more. in terms of renewables, another thing people don't know is can the energy department. the u.s. energy department said i 2017, wind power to generate a kilowatt of wind power's going to be at parity with coal and it's going to be cheaper than nuclear power. this is not me. this is the energy department. now solar is more expensive but solar has also been coming down very dramatically so it's not bite 2017 and some people think it will be but solar power will be a parody. the only source of energy at which renewables will not be across parity
it's a law. i don't know about the -- zonal enough about the ins and outs of washington, when you ask a lot don't you have to do something? so it is happening, it's a law so that would be important and it would give benefit aside from environmental benefits, benefit to the taxpayers because you would be paying 30% less for energy for all the government holdings and it would set off the market in spill into the private market. people would think about it more. in terms of renewables, another...
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they work hard laws and soft laws to basically -- what is the word i am looking for? defame an employer that goes against them. their mission like i said is name and shame and it doesn't have anything to do with justice. let me give you an example of a neutrality agreement. if you look on page 3 of that neutrality agreement, paragraph 4 says employers, the employer will not file a petition with the national labor relations board for an election in connection with any demand for recognition by the union. you can challenge them. you just have to take their word for it and the employer is left completely out of the loop they're going across the pond with neutrality agreements through what is called international framework agreements. i will give you an example of a company, most people heard of a company called gee 4s at the olympics in london they were the company that was responsible for providing most of the security for the event. they had a subsidiary in the united states, really legendary cases taking on the seiu. they didn't get a lot of ground at the time. gee 4s
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>> so, the law right now is in limbo. the president has -- i'm not sure he has this executive power, but it is in the process of being challenged. this is the problem. our courts take so long. he did unilaterally or by delegated authority, he extended the time for the so-called dream act of students who you are describing to span the country for two years. it does not offer a permanent solution to this. in the book that i have written called immigration wars, we propose it passed the legalization for adults, a path the citizenship for their children under the theory that the sense that this is -- not the right term, but the illegal immigrants break the law. their children should not be penalized for that. and so in your scenario and not sure you're talking about anybody you know. we will just leave it that. you would be under the suggestions that there being discussed right now in washington to reform aggression and will we believe that you would be given a path -- now you, excuse me. the person you describe would be give
>> so, the law right now is in limbo. the president has -- i'm not sure he has this executive power, but it is in the process of being challenged. this is the problem. our courts take so long. he did unilaterally or by delegated authority, he extended the time for the so-called dream act of students who you are describing to span the country for two years. it does not offer a permanent solution to this. in the book that i have written called immigration wars, we propose it passed the...
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they start enforcing traffic laws. and you see how it was under the corporate relationships. they really changed. we have to start. the chocoholic in virginia a few years before. he got onto the potomac double and double again. premeds 20 years. it changes the department. the staffing, more vehicles, and ultimately the police station. one of the things i find really interesting is officers began enforcing speed limits. from the first 47 years of the police department's history they didn't have cars. they had emergency situations. there were not motorized vehicles. so once cars started coming through alexandria, sibila said to be put into quite -- place. at the stop somebody for speeding? and today we have radar, so many techniques. 1910, 1911, we have no way do that. pretty resourceful. two officers standing in one corner of one block and in two blocks up yet another. they had somebody between those two blocks. so they knew what the maximum speed was and the distance that could be covered. that's how you would determine if someone is actually speeding. able to approach this.
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my sister-in-law, my best friend. i grew up around teachers and having an incredible respect for the difficult job that they have every day. and i still surrounded by teachers to this day. and i think that it is because i have such respect for teachers and told them in such regard i have a tremendous believe for what they can do and the power that they have, and i refuse to believe what many folks these days say which is if kids are coming from difficult situations and poverty there is nothing the schools can do. i roundly reject that notion. i think that when children are in the classrooms of truly effective teachers even despite the fact they may face a lot of obstacles those kids can achieve the highest levels and so we should aspire to nothing short as a nation making sure every single kid is in the classroom with a highly effective teacher every single day. it's no less than what we would want for our own children and nothing different than we should want for the nation's kids. >> michelle, if the united states s
my sister-in-law, my best friend. i grew up around teachers and having an incredible respect for the difficult job that they have every day. and i still surrounded by teachers to this day. and i think that it is because i have such respect for teachers and told them in such regard i have a tremendous believe for what they can do and the power that they have, and i refuse to believe what many folks these days say which is if kids are coming from difficult situations and poverty there is nothing...
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do talk about them in the book a little bit because there are some interesting things about the way law has evolved in the country. one thing that i've learned about doing their research in my book is that the idea that an invention is a brand new idea is incorrect because of course everything comes from what came before it and in fact that this in my mind one of the key points about tinkering is that it is actually taking away from you making something new out of it. even the laser bugs sapper, which intellectual ventures developed told me that they actually built it out of spare parts from consumer electronics they built out of each -- ebay so i think that is something they wanted to do in a lot of ways. i ever stand people come up with a great idea they are afraid we are going to steal it, but the reality is that it does not usually work that way. usually people try to steal it wants to end its already successful. so if you can get to that point, then you have a high class problem. so, you know, i think it is natural for people with special the young people to think that what they ha
do talk about them in the book a little bit because there are some interesting things about the way law has evolved in the country. one thing that i've learned about doing their research in my book is that the idea that an invention is a brand new idea is incorrect because of course everything comes from what came before it and in fact that this in my mind one of the key points about tinkering is that it is actually taking away from you making something new out of it. even the laser bugs...
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they had to start enforcing traffic laws. see how the cooperatives, the relationship between really changed. the out gall was banned in virginia a few years before. there are people that believe that affected just go out there were technical in virginia. earlier the alexandria book department did not need a lot of new vehicles. it did not need a motorcycle. pretty small area there were responsible for patrolling. the double than doubled again. pretty much really change the department. staffing. one of the stores the found interesting was out officers began enforcing speed limits. from the first 47 years of the police department history didn't have cars. emergency situation. there were not notarized. so once car started coming through alexandria, the question arises, how do you stop somebody for speeding. and today we have radars and some may techniques. there's no way do that. we had two officers spanning one corner of one block and then after another. and they had somebody between us to box. being able to approach set and th
they had to start enforcing traffic laws. see how the cooperatives, the relationship between really changed. the out gall was banned in virginia a few years before. there are people that believe that affected just go out there were technical in virginia. earlier the alexandria book department did not need a lot of new vehicles. it did not need a motorcycle. pretty small area there were responsible for patrolling. the double than doubled again. pretty much really change the department. staffing....
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the african-american community of alexandria paid taxes, followed ore laws, but they were not allowed to take part in the things that every alexandria citizen was allowed to take part in. this was part of a program that young a young local attorney named samuel tucker had been working on for some time. >> samuel tucker was a native of alexandria, really got a taste of wanting to be a lawyer for two reasons. one, there was a lawyer here in town, thomas watson, who rented space from tucker's father, and he became fascinated with what lawyer watson did. and then the other was that he took a trip on a streetcar with his brothers into d.c., and they were coming back from d.c., and they were asked to move from their seats once the train, the streetcar got into alexandria by a white patron who was there, and they refused. actually, i believe it was tucker's brother otto who refused to move from his seat. and when they got off the streetcar, the woman followed them and flagged down a policeman and had the young men arrested. and luckily, the charges were thrown out because, um, the boys were
the african-american community of alexandria paid taxes, followed ore laws, but they were not allowed to take part in the things that every alexandria citizen was allowed to take part in. this was part of a program that young a young local attorney named samuel tucker had been working on for some time. >> samuel tucker was a native of alexandria, really got a taste of wanting to be a lawyer for two reasons. one, there was a lawyer here in town, thomas watson, who rented space from...
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there's also a lot of exemptions from the anti-extortion laws for unions. so there's another rico violation being prosecuted in upstate new york in the syracuse area where you had, basically, the building and construction departments were going and doing s like pouring -- things like pouring sand into the heavy equipment in a lot of nonunion place operators and basically telling them, hey, you've got to the hire them, or we're going to see to it the project doesn't get built. the union's basically -- [inaudible] but we have an exemption from the federal anti-extortion laws, and you can't prosecute us from doing this. and the kicker is they're right. they may be prosecuted under the state anti-extortion statutes, but that's something at the state level. states could clarify that being involved in a union suit does not exempt you from labor union laws. and threaten their business and livelihood in order to get them to join a union. toughening up the laws at the state level is very obvious policy that would protect a lot of employees and employers from this so
there's also a lot of exemptions from the anti-extortion laws for unions. so there's another rico violation being prosecuted in upstate new york in the syracuse area where you had, basically, the building and construction departments were going and doing s like pouring -- things like pouring sand into the heavy equipment in a lot of nonunion place operators and basically telling them, hey, you've got to the hire them, or we're going to see to it the project doesn't get built. the union's...
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>> guest: criminal law in the law school, and i actually also teach over in the college of -- school of public affairs. >> host: what do you teach there? >> guest: law and society. >> host: what sparked you to write "how to succeed in college"? >> guest: great question. i taught for over 20 years now, and i saw some of the same problems from students over and over and over again, things like not understanding how to cite material and inadvertently getting in trouble with plagarism, a student seeing college, take advantage of everything in the classroom, and i e-mail students with hints and the like, and i sent the same e-mails out year after year, and i thought, you know what, time to write the book to say, "buy the book," and i don't have to send the e-mails out. >> host: what's the best thing parents can do to prepare their kids? >> guest: a couple things. one is the academic side. the best thing that students can do to be prepared for college is reading and writing, and i know that sounds old school, but it is true today as it was when i went to college in the olden days, and that
>> guest: criminal law in the law school, and i actually also teach over in the college of -- school of public affairs. >> host: what do you teach there? >> guest: law and society. >> host: what sparked you to write "how to succeed in college"? >> guest: great question. i taught for over 20 years now, and i saw some of the same problems from students over and over and over again, things like not understanding how to cite material and inadvertently getting...
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stanford's law office burns in a fire, he loses his files, he loses his law books, and he decides i don't want to be a lawyer, i'm going to california. he goes to california and joins his brothers. he borrows money from them, he opens a shop in the mountains called stanford and smith and sells to miners. stanford is a taciturn businessman. he's practically wordless. anybody who met him reported the same thing, he has five words an hour. he is laconic to the point of pathology. [laughter] but he's an amiable behind the cash register, and he deals straight, and so he succeeds rapidly as a shopkeeper. he moves his shop to sacramento, the capital of california. now, the capital of california in the mid 1850s had the enormous population of 12,000 people. it's a cow town, but he becomes the grocer in town who sells the best goods. next door to him there's another shop which is a hardware store called huntington and hopkins run by a couple of guys who sell hardware. and one day in 1858 hopkins, stanford and huntington receive this salesman who's coming through town trying to pump up the idea of
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when it was a crisis like little rock crisis, eisenhower did follow the law. he followed the constitution. he did what a five star general did. the hated this whole thing. anti-particularly didn't like adam clayton powell. he thought he was a demagogue. so i'm not sure what nixon's role in this, nixon was, you, nixon was very friendly with them because they kind of like each other. [inaudible] >> the issue was that he was actually influenced by advisers to him he won't be able to make a decisive decision not to include. so what i'm saying is that you feel as though nixon's personal politics towards african-americans during his administration were negatively affected by his advisors that surrounded him during that administration? >> i don't think the. you're talking presidents nixon, not vice president nixon spent but i'm talking about an event that happened during his vice presidential speeches are not aware of one or the other, i'm sorry. >> i think that richard nixon attitude towards african-americans were shaped by some assumptions we have about genetics an
when it was a crisis like little rock crisis, eisenhower did follow the law. he followed the constitution. he did what a five star general did. the hated this whole thing. anti-particularly didn't like adam clayton powell. he thought he was a demagogue. so i'm not sure what nixon's role in this, nixon was, you, nixon was very friendly with them because they kind of like each other. [inaudible] >> the issue was that he was actually influenced by advisers to him he won't be able to make a...
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and traffic enforcement that, when police have started prohibition and they started enforcing traffic laws. and to see how, what was once a co-op would've relationship between citizens and police really changed once they had to circuiting people for driving or seeking arrest while drinking liquor. alcohol was banned in virginia two years before national legislation was passed. there were people who believed that they could just go out on the potomac and consume liquor, then that was legal because they were not technically in virginia. earlier the police department needed a lot of vehicles. it was a pretty small area. they were responsible for patrolling and started seeing the size of alexandria double and then double again in a matter of 20 years, really changed the department. the staffing, more vehicles, and ultimately they needed a new police station. one of the stories i find really interesting is how officers began enforcing speed limits. for the like the first 40 years of please departments history you didn't have cars. they were not motorized vehicles. so once cars started coming to
and traffic enforcement that, when police have started prohibition and they started enforcing traffic laws. and to see how, what was once a co-op would've relationship between citizens and police really changed once they had to circuiting people for driving or seeking arrest while drinking liquor. alcohol was banned in virginia two years before national legislation was passed. there were people who believed that they could just go out on the potomac and consume liquor, then that was legal...
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so it still considered a radical idea, but it was nevertheless now law. about a year ago a poll was done of tea party members, and asked them a lot of questions about their views, about many things. and one of them was how they felt about social security. and about 70% of all the tea party members that they pulled said that congress and business committee should not mess with social security. they thought social security was sacrosanct. so how did this idea of social security go from being this socialist radical idea 100 you to g go to something that today, even right wing tea party members feel is so embedded in our society as part of our mainstream that it shouldn't be messed with? it doesn't mean that the art of some conservatives as people want to reduce social study benefits but almost all americans agree that social security is something that we need. so when i was in milwaukee, i thought everybody in milwaukee is going to know who victor berger was because you such a remarkable public figure. so as people in the audience, you know, are there any bu
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he supported passionately fighting bob lawfulness progressive party campaign for the presidency in 1924. he passionately supported henry wallace's campaign in 1848 and 50 if he had won he would make whitespace treasury secretary. he was a true believer, but he took orders from nobody. >> i don't think i need a mic for this question. it's a simple question. do you have anything in your book about the relationship of harry dexter white and alger hiss? >> no, i don't. i don't know what position should arise. we know they interacted at san francisco, but i actually did not come across anything in the archives about the interaction between the two of them. i would say i'm a basis of wood and the archival material in particular soviet intelligence cables severed decrypt data under the so-called winona project that white was probably more important to soviet television and alger hiss was. the case sort of died out after 1948 because white died of a heart attack two days after giving testimony before the house un-american activities committee. but he actually turns in it are fond of performance
he supported passionately fighting bob lawfulness progressive party campaign for the presidency in 1924. he passionately supported henry wallace's campaign in 1848 and 50 if he had won he would make whitespace treasury secretary. he was a true believer, but he took orders from nobody. >> i don't think i need a mic for this question. it's a simple question. do you have anything in your book about the relationship of harry dexter white and alger hiss? >> no, i don't. i don't know what...
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he didn't have to practice much law. he could give speeches, and he could be a name partner bringing in business at this firm, this wall street firm, it became nixon -- i forget all the names and so on. and things were, they were happy. they were going to musicals, they were eating at the the best restaurants, nixon was having lunch at the club with tom dewey and all these also-rans. they were walking checkers along fifth avenue. trisha and julie were going to the chapin school. in february of '64 -- >> sounds like a frank capra movie. [laughter] in new york, i can just see it. >> peter really liked nixon, new york times reporter who was really impressed by mix son's civil rights -- nixon's civil rights. in february '64, jack parr's daughter randi got tickets for them to see the beatles, and suddenly kennedy is killed, and nixon's itch started up again. he wanted to run in '64. he was already meeting with the republican national committee chairman i think the weekend after kennedy was shot. he could feel it coming. and h
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presidential campaign of her makesband john quincy as was ms the complex relationship with her mother-in-law, fot pst lady usigail adams. we will include your questions and comments by phone, faceb le and twitter monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-in aan and ouldin and also cer-pan radio and c-span.org. >> the british nnt any had out lae toe impact on the war of 18. in alexandria, va. with the help of o or l foal c usle partner comcast we sat down with denver to discuss the nnt any admot pa. his book is the evil necessity:british naval imprisonment in the atlantihem worure. it is next on booktv. >> the british empot pe in the 18th-cenhry was really a maritime and hire. as an island nation they dnshended hent anon controlling the trade of various colonor l territories. eor this work they neey powerful navy and the nnt any needed meledg so british naval ships sailed the world but were ein aecor ll avaoncentrated in the atlantic d this is how the system affected american colonists. when british naval vessels came into various ports they often lost men because of death, disease and desertion and
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and the path that we could take is to allow for a strategic reform of our immigration laws so that we can bring young, aspirational people that will rebuild the demographic pyramid to make our entitlement system secure and jump-start our economy in a way that will create an uplifting of our hopes and dreams but also directly impact, immediately impact economic growth. >> u.s. economic growth and immigration policy. former florida governor jeb bush on immigration wars tonight at 8:15 eastern, part of booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> here's a look at some of the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. during the second weekend of march, booktv will be live from the tucson festival of books in arizona. among several authors feature are timothy egan and kristin iverson. be sure to check our web site for updates on the schedule. the virginia festival of the book begins wednesday, march 20th and runs through sunday, the 24th. this annual charlottesville, virginia, event features douglas brinkley and congressman john lewis. also that weekend it's the 26th annual ten
and the path that we could take is to allow for a strategic reform of our immigration laws so that we can bring young, aspirational people that will rebuild the demographic pyramid to make our entitlement system secure and jump-start our economy in a way that will create an uplifting of our hopes and dreams but also directly impact, immediately impact economic growth. >> u.s. economic growth and immigration policy. former florida governor jeb bush on immigration wars tonight at 8:15...
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i have an american brother-in-law. but it just gives you a front-row seat to the other side of the story. >> host: you were the -- if i'm not mistaken -- the only nonamerican foreign correspondent in the traveling press corps for the state department? >> guest: that is correct. although my colleagues from route tiers may not point out they're not american but i'm nonwestern. i have a dutch mother but for all intents and purposes i'm very much an arab woman. i grew up there. i lived there my whole life and that's kind of what i bring to the table. although i have also a western perspective on in things because of my brand. my mother's nationality and the time i spent traveling in the west. yes, i was the only nonwestern, and specifically for the bbc, the first nonbritish person to cover this beat. >> host: one of the most interesting parts of the book is actually learning the process of being secretary of state, going from country to country. you kind of take there is -- take there is as hillary clinton traveled around
i have an american brother-in-law. but it just gives you a front-row seat to the other side of the story. >> host: you were the -- if i'm not mistaken -- the only nonamerican foreign correspondent in the traveling press corps for the state department? >> guest: that is correct. although my colleagues from route tiers may not point out they're not american but i'm nonwestern. i have a dutch mother but for all intents and purposes i'm very much an arab woman. i grew up there. i lived...